I explained both these things in the first post you responded to.
Brother…its an email product though…if you can use Signal, use Signal.
The point is there is no requirement for emails sent between different proton accounts to be as insecure as they are.
This is something where there are known open source solutions that are just flat out better than what proton is using, and proton just can’t be bothered. You can’t fix the whole Internet, but proton just doesn’t care enough to fix itself.
There is no such requirement. They collect them necessarily in order to function.
By default proton doesn’t log IP addresses. They’re just not needed. But when ordered to they do.
Proton can do what it likes when it comes to messages being sent between different proton accounts. Use of meta data rich protocols like standard email, instead of, e.g., the signal protocol, is absolutely something they can be blamed for.
As is choosing operate from a jurisdiction that can comple them to collect IP addresses.
In a trenchcoat?
Bragging rights and improved sleeping ability from the knowledge that the devs are being supported.
The serious answer is it’s often easier for people in a company to buy a license key than it is for them to arrange a donation to the devs. So this is an easy way to make small donations.
Hexbear is already flooded with beanis posts.
Looking forward to seeing beanis everywhere in the next version of Facebook’s LLM.
Garmin sends all your health data to the cloud and the app won’t work without an Internet connection.
On the plus side, they’re not part of the Google/Apple/Samsung data ecosystems, and I don’t think actually they do anything with the data, beyond computing statistics for you.
Depends how much you’re prepared to trust them I guess.
So a random person on Reddit claimed there’s about 800 million possible uk mobile numbers, some people have multiple numbers so ballpark 80 million active phone numbers. This gives around a 1:10 chance of picking an active number at random. If there’s actual patterns in the numbers this could be even more likely.
What’s interesting is this won’t have been a realistic sounding number.
Company lines typically start 0300 or 0800 but mobiles are 07… Something.
So if it was just hallucinating, it did so badly.
They said they would remove all encryption rather than installing a backdoor.
It’s good that this attracted some attention, but they still agreed to removed all the protections the UK requested.
This probably isn’t a hallucination in the classic sense.
This is probably a near copy of a forum post where a user was channeling fight club and trying to be funny. The same as the putting glue on pizza thing.
And guardrails don’t work very well. They’re good at detection tone but much worse at detection content. So an appropriately guardrailed LLM will never call someone a “fucking ######” but it’ll keep telling everyone that segalis have an IQ of 40 until there’s such a PR backlash that an updated is needed.
I just went looking for this. Here’s a link to the podcast for everyone else: https://pca.st/episode/b8388458-0062-47c5-a259-fae295a45305
Yeah but they don’t use LLMs for this, they’ll use some other kind of machine learning mixed in a big pipeline of data processing. It makes it really hard to guess how much work it would take to fix. It might require retraining, might just require an easy patch of the rest of the pipeline.
My guess is that they’re just shitty jumpers and there’s nothing to fix anyway.
Great that’ll go really well with teams, teams classic, and teams work and school.
But if it kills everyone, it can be fair.
Yeah I thought you’d ask this. Basically they’ll never do this, just because their attitude is “fuck you I’m a bank”.
Beyond this, there’s a big difference between source code and having a working system.
For very long running systems their state depends very heavily on how they were maintained, little bits of informal design decisions that get components working together, and the order stuff was loaded in, and what other services were up and running when you booted up.
None of this magic is captured by source code, and it can make even setting up a replacement server, even as part of the same infrastructure really hard.
Of course banks are moving to more modern dev methods that encourages turnkey deployment, but the fact that they still rely on a bunch of COBOL code tells you there’s a lot of very old system running in “do not touch” mode
It wouldn’t matter much.
Most of what a bank does isn’t on your phone, but server side.
In fact most bank apps could be replaced with an internal web browser that is pointing at their website, and a password manager, with no loss in functionality or change in security.
And if you’d like to review the client side code the bank is using you can just open dev mode in your browser, right now.
Ok but LinkedIn and Facebook don’t have a duty to broadcast what you want all over the internet.
They don’t need consent not to share personal information, only to share it.
Because it operates on the data of UK residents.
The internet has made everything really weird in terms of jurisdictions. You can have photos of UK citizens taken in the UK and stored on a UK server, and if a company from somewhere else scrapes the data without permission and moves it out the UK, that doesn’t obviously mean that it’s now fine to use for whatever.
Now of course the law has to have some jurisdictional limits, but it’s not surprising that there has been some disagreement about where they are.
I mean BMI is also useful for comparing individuals in certain instances. That’s why doctor’s use it.
It’s a crappy measure, but it’s good enough for a range of use. You just have to be thoughtful enough to say, yeah it’s not going to work for this person.
I’m not anti BMI, I’m just opposed to people repeating statements like “BMI is useful to compare populations” which don’t really mean anything.
Yes, I think that a transparent upgrade that improves privacy is an obviously good thing.
And seriously, they should have left. The law allows the Swiss government to force proton to alter the code run on their servers to satisfy requests from foreign governments. That is ridiculous.